Day 5: Down The Olympic Peninsula, To Oregon

   

Sunday, July 28, 2002

The ferry from Victoria, BC to Port Angeles, Washington... along the Strait Of Juan De Fuca to Neah Bay... down the Pacific coast... Ruby Beach... Aberdeen... to Astoria, Oregon...

 

Pulling out of Victoria and toward Port Angles and the Olympic Mountains of Washington State...

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

Hurricane Ridge... a beautiful 17 mile drive from Port Angles up into the Olympic Mountains...

 

       

 

       

 

This shot looks down upon the clouds covering Port Angeles and the Strait Of Juan De Fuca. For a brief moment I could even make out Victoria, BC, 30 miles across the Strait...

 

This is the eastward view, toward Puget Sound...

       

 

   

 

Westward along the Strait to Neah Bay, the NorthWestern most tip of the contiguous United States...

 

         

 

We bumped along the rough road through the rain forest trying to get to Cape Flattery, the absolute NorthWestern most tip of the continental United States...

 

Back eastward along the Strait Of Juan De Fuca toward Pacific Highway 101...

 

On down the Olympic Peninsula...

 

Washington's Pacific Coast, at Ruby Beach...

 

       

 

       

 

   

 

My Father's steps here at Ruby Beach, Washington were the most distant steps from his birthplace that he would ever take. Father passed away 2 years and 1 day after this day, on July 29, 2004.

 

We took our evening meal at Aberdeen, WA then continued southward on Highway 101 toward Astoria, Oregon. We crossed the Astoria Bridge over the mighty Columbia River and entered Astoria as darkness fell upon the land...